Inclined Bed Therapy or I.B.T. an alternative to sleeping flat, Used by the Ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago, is shown to help people with serious illnesses including multiple sclerosis, ccsvi, Parkinson's, psoriasis, acne,spinal cord Injuries,varicose veins, oedema, circulation & respiratory conditions and many more. Begs the question: How Safe Is Sleeping Flat?

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Thursday, June 24, 2010

Dr. Franz Schelling, Austria

F.A. Schelling's 1981 discovery, at the Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Salzburg, of a striking widening of the main venous passageways through the skulls in victims of multiple sclerosis were to occupy the author's thoughts through the following decades of his quite diversified medical career. And in putting together, bit by bit, all the observations on the venous involvement in the emergence of the specific, and, in particular, cerebral lesions of multiple sclerosis, he was able to recognize their causes.

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If you control your breathing and deliberately slow it down,
your heart rate will also slow down. anxiety, apprehension, worrying, fear etc
can have a direct effect on heart rate.

The main circulation I.B.T. logic:

The theory behind Inclined bed therapy is that for every
breath exhaled we release a tiny pulse of denser solutes back into the main
arteries which gravity can act upon in favour of the circulation, which in turn
affects the venous return and stroke volume in the heart. This will cause the
heart to become more efficient at moving the blood around when we are on an
inclined, and when walking. Standing still and sitting applies direct pressure
to the vessels and surrounding muscle, ligaments and skin tissue and narrow the
vessels so the heart backs up pressure ( a main cause of feinting)

Shallow Breathing

The same scenario also applies to rapid shallow breathing,
we still release pulses of denser blood back into the main artery and after
passing back through the heart these solutes are drawn down the artery but
there are more of them, even though they are not as concentrated as when the
lungs are fully inflated and deflated from slower deeper breathing. This serves
to accelerate the heart and the respiration and I believe it is the main cause
of asthma hyperventilation.

School Girl Asthma attack

While out walking the dogs, I came across 2 schoolgirls, one
looking terrified and crying the other in hyperventilation having an asthma
attack. She was in serious trouble. Right away, I said listen carefully, she
nodded unable to talk and in distress. On breathing out count to 5 seconds
before inhaling try to repeat this for each breath, which she did.

Within 2 minutes her breathing and presumably her heart rate
had returned to normal, she became relaxed and the attack was ended. They both
thanked me and with smiles wider than the grand canyon walked calmly as if
nothing had happened.

Before reading the following article, apply the density
changes released by exhaling to the explanations given in it.

Also take into account the action of breathing into a paper
bag for hyperventilation. Here it would serve to eliminate the density changes
in the lungs due to breathing the same volume of moist air in and out of the
lungs so that no pulses of solutes will enter the main artery. Result:
breathing would return to base line rapidly.

I can also hear my own heart beating while laying on an
inclined and have experimented many times slowing down my breathing by releasing
a longer slower exhale and counting to 5 seconds or more before inhaling. I can
hear the changes in my own heart rate within 30 seconds.

Normally, while sleeping on an inclined bed the heart rate
slows down and the respiration rate slows down significantly by 10-12 beats per
minute and 4-5 breaths per minute, which is a huge difference to a person
sleeping flat. The same changes took place in 2 sleeping dogs (who didn’t mind
a stethoscope) on an incline.

While awake however, as previously stated, we can consciously
and subconsciously alter our breathing and the angled bed will make use of the
number of breaths we take either way. Even subtle changes in breathing can
start a steady acceleration of the heart, which in turn inflates and deflates
the lungs quicker in a vicious circle, but now you know how to intervene and
reverse this.

So please experiment with this method of controlled
respiration and do come back and let us know what you find.

You can also purchase a professional stethoscope from ebay
as I did for a few dollars / pounds, so you can observe the changes more
effectively.